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41) THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 24, 1917. v What Business Thinks By Frederic J. Hade n MAIL CABBIES GETS SIS CAPTAIN COMMISSON. Washington, June 21j-The Ameri can business man is just about as ex asperated now as liesver hopes to be. You can tell it By looking at him, if he does not tell you himself in a long outburst o! righteous indig- nation. Several things are the mat ter. The war, for one thing, and the weather for another, but worst of all ia the wave of economy which has re cently swept the country. People, complain the business men, are on . the verge of hysteria. They won't buy even the things they actually - need. Instead, "they are hoarding their earnings in the bank against some obscure future emergency which can't be understood at all. "Thia is the sort of thing that brings on a panic," declared a promi nent New York merchant at a busi ness meeting the other day. "It simply must be stopped." Feeling among the retail trade is becoming very bitter towards the dis - tribution of thrift pamphlets and . tracts.- "One trade journal even goes so far as to voice a suspicion that certain society wtmien and govern ment authorities are merely using the economy propaganda to get their names into the papers. Not long ago, ani1man marl . anfffrh In a fltim- ber of Red Cross women, in which he reproached them for wearing ailk dresses. No woman should be seen wearing a silk dress while the war tasted, he said. It was extravagance. The effect of this announcement was ;o make the manufacturers and ra- tailers of silk well-nigh aponletic. They did not hesitate to express their privatCopinions of the intelligence of the gentleman in question. Why was it an, extravagance for women to wear silk dresses, they wanted to know, when silk dreases were the cheapest wearing apparel on the market? Look at the advertisement of any wom en a wear or department store, and you will find silk dresses selling way nelow voiles, linens ana even ine iow- 1.. : L ... . a. , t. - Arnam.nr fif (lie nivuicii. . "This -is the kind of misstatement we hid to put up with for the last six months," says the owner of a lame PhiladelDhia cldthing establish ment. "Six months more of it Hid there will be a-panic. It mav be inserted parenthetically that the purpose of this article is to give the business man a point ot view, and not to present an argument. We have been looking at events' with the binoculars of the buyer for a long time, but occasionally it is interesting to change about and get on the other side of the counter. The difference is enormous as enormous as the dif ference between riding in a motor car and hurrying across in front of it. The business man's point of view It not pessimistic. He believes that . the war is going to bring greater pros- . perity than ever before. Production will necesssrily be much greater; the employment of labor will be greater, and the circulation of money greater. Moreover, the $7,000)000,000 In bonds now being raised by the government, :t l . ' . i - . a - -: will lie apcin in mis cuuuiry. niucii- can manufacturers will get the bene fit of it. There is only one danger in the whole prosperous outlook the instinct of aeli-preservation which is causing people to "hoard," Irvin Cobb has defined the chief characteristic of twentieth century America as hysteria rather than ex travagance. The business men agree with him. We are apt to rush to extremei. it appears, without think ing, and if you get us excited enough we will even save money. Thus, when you start out to work up an economy scare with the American people, you are playing with fire they may take you seriously. Now, inquires the business man, what is going to be come of national commerce if every' body suddenly resolves to go with out new clothes, to live on cheese and macaroni, and to stayyhome from ttil opera and showsr The answer is at Once forcible and dramatic. Hundreds of clothing fac tories in spite of government orders would have 'to close. Wholesale establishments and retail shops would close, thousands of factory workers, designers, milliners, floor walkers salesgirls, messengers and bookkeep ers would be thrown out of work, Middlemen (with the exception of cheese and macaroni trusts) would go out or business. Upera singers, mov ing picture actresses, stage carpenter and doorkeepers would all starve. No; it is demand that keeps produo tion going, and if the wheels of com. merce stop running for even a short time, cnaos is the result, the con sumcr paying for it as always in the cnn. The advice of the nation's business men, therefore, is not to hoard money, but t spend wisely and moderately. Don't waste food, but also do not re trench too far. Prices are high, of course, but so are wages. Ihe labor ing man, according! to his emolover. is able to buv more than he ever did before. (This is probably new to -the laboring man, but we are consider ing only the business man s point of view.j In lite matter of clothes, declare the merchants, there is very little need of retrenchment. Wool, of course, is scarce, so we cannot have wool. If the British government raise it embargo on wool enough to permit sufficient supplies to, come for- waru worn Australia, we may Be auie to wear wool-and-cotton mixtures next winter, but (his will also de pend upon Wall street i .ampliations One thing M certain. Our soldier will have to wear wool whether anyone else does or not. Vhe economy -board of the National Council of Defense, alarmed at the wool scarcity, secured a few weeks ago the, promise of American .clothing men to be as eco nomical a possible in the use of wool in manuf-et'tring garments.. Only a cert in number of models will be made up this fall, all superfluous deco ration will be omitted and in men's apparel even a few of the usual nu merous pocket will be eliminated. Cotton is not plentiful either, owinor to 'its extensive! use in the manufac ture of high explosives, and, really, ailk once handed down from one generation to another as an heirloom is nowthe most inexpensive of good fahricsAAs long as a fabric is not needed for war materials, there is no reason why women should not buy a much of it as they please, declare the manufacturers. In buvinar clothes and fur and furniture and furbelows, people will keep the machinery going and prosperity running high. , ine weatner tnis spring has been unusually cold and t-loomv. which ha had a deterant effect upon the purchase of clothes. Men, expecting to be drafted, have bought as little as possible of anything. Others, guiltv of the national malady, hysteria, have held to their money and refused to buy any more than they had to. Busi ness has been slow. But now the gov ernment orders are beginning to flow in and by means of reassuring adver tisements tho merchants have suc ceeded in making people open their poclsetbooks. Prosperity i back afcain ahd hereafter it is going to be the QmmmmmmmmmmmmimMmmmm 1 V- -j D.(P. Morton. 3517 Burt street, a majt carrier, received a commission as captain Saturday in the quarter master's department. Mr. Morton was ordered to proceed at the ear liest time possible to Fort Sam Hous ton, Tex. , He will leave this afternoon. Mr. Morton served in the Soinish- American war and saw active duty in the Philippines and Cuba. He en listed in 1897 and was mustered out five years later with the rank of ser geant. Mr. Morton has been active in the Spanish-American veterans' organiza tion, of which he was quartermaster. business of the business men to keep h mere The war must not hurt the pros perity that has been carefully built up ana nurtured during ,the lat two year. Our commerce must come through the conflict stronger than ever, prepared for the struggle whichjj every authority says is going to fol-1 low the military contest. Japan has not let war interfere with its com merce. On '.he contrary it has made it the occasion to extend it into every important port in the world. When peace comes '.i will be prepared. Pros perity and not retrenchment is now the slogan of American business men. It is a hand-to-hand right with the economists. We must be saved from saving too much money. -' Advises Home Buyers Not to Go Beyond Their Means A realtor of many years experience, talking recently to a young man seek ing to buy a home of moderate price said: . The matter of location for the prospective home . owner is of the greatest Importance. The man who buys in a locality with surroifhdings that are beyond the possibilities of his bank roll, makes a serioua mistake. The practice of buying extravagantly has.come to be a prevalent one; but, indications are, however, that more sane vtewa are being held bv the ores, ent buvers. The ourchaser who con iuiii a rc.uur ui lung experience ana good judgment is availing himself of a service which will be worth much to him. By buying the right priced home he is taking a contract which he can fulfill without denying himself and family little pleasures and pas times, and without always watching every little outlay in order to make ootn ends meet. 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Duffie. desire the publication of the following expres sion of appreciation of the work done during the last week in the Red Cross drive: "To the Editt. of-The Bee: The Red Cross War Fund finance com mittee wishes to make pubis; acknowledgement of the valuable serv ices rendered bv the men. women and children of Omaha, as well as the business institutions, who' as sisted so materially in the. Red Cross campaign in this CTt' "We wish particularly to thank the hundreds of patriotic women who volunteered to telephone every Omaha home in behalf of the Boy Scouts, and the equall patriotic wo- Authorised Sales and ' . Service. HOLMES-ADKINS COMPANY 4911-17 South 24th Street Tel. South 420 ' "Goodyear Service Station" men who volunteered to assist the Boy Scouts in collecting, pledges in dis tricts which the boys could not cover. "The Boy Scouts themselves and Scout Executive English are entitled to most sincere thanks for their l.clp-, as withoutthe help of these manly little fellows thous .ds of dollars would have been lost to the fund. "Appreciation is also due to Jhe Omaha Ad club for the fine campaign of advertising, originated and car ried out by it through President. Charles Kothen and the executive committee. Special blanks are due to T. O. Warfield, Frank Builta, Frank C. Bestor, C. B. Ayres and R. B. Wallace, who worked with the publicity bureau 'often until late at night. "To the Omaha Stationery com pany, the Warren Film company, Na tional Printing company, Omaha Street Railway corftpan;- the Darlow Advertising company, Boyle college, the Omaha Nebraskan, every 'movie' house in the city,yand W. J. Burgess, manage, of the Boyd theater, for the assistance given. "Special credit is also due the news papers of the city, as well as their abl reporters, who kovered' the cam paign so thoroughl" and effectively. "As it is impossible to reach every one personally, we wish to express our appreciation publicly to all who assisted us in this great work." Priority Bill Pleases Carriers and Shippers During the last week' the whole salers of Omaha and elsewhere in this country were alarmed at the threatened turn of affairs in the bill before congress, known as the "New-j lands hill, or the fnonty Bill," which seek to give the president authority to require tne carrier to give pre lerence m tne transportation ment made necessary by war condi tions. As originally drawn, the bill provided that if a carrier should sutler injury or damage from complying with the priority order, it would be reimbursed after the amount was de termined by the Interstate Commerce commission, but no such provision was made with respect to the loss sustained by the shipper, who was left without any recourse to recover his loss. The Commercial club and scores of Omaha shippers wired Washington, insisting that the same provision in the way of protection against loss that is given the railroad companies be given the shipperyAs a result of the protests received from the entire country, a new bill was framed in which the question of pro tection against loss is left in such shape tat the shipper has fully as much as the railroadycompanies. 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